a give-away

It's my blog anniversary this week..

When I started blogging I was not sure whether I'll be able fill this space with some pretty decent pictures,articles etc and wondered will there be someone interested to read whatever I scribble about my stitching life ..

but here I am ..entering 4^th year of blogging :-)

I would like to celebrate by giving away one of my patterns to one lucky winner-

A. Stylized Indian peacock B. Paisley chakra C. Desi pouch

Look at the side bar for the pattern images..don't want to bore y'all by posting the images again :)

If you'd like to win a pattern please leave a comment in this post and mention which pattern you'd like to have A,B or C 

Leave your comment before 4:00 pm IST on October 5^th. I'll draw a winner at random and announce it here on October 5^th,Sunday.

Thank you all for the love and support.

Happy stitching!

Anita

lace doily

I'd shown bits and pieces of this doily in a couple of my earlier posts..It's time to reveal the blocked knitted lace doily now...

Happy stitching!

Anita

Iris leaf and petals

I hadn't touched the iris project for almost 6 months now :-( . So my little goal for this past week was to spend a couple of hours of my personal stitching time on this lovely project.

                                                     

The leaf is stitched with long and short stitch using five shades of green and a darker green is used to do the stem stitch veins.Did you notice the puckering of the fabric near the leaf? 

                                         

I think I had pulled a couple of stitches at the top and the fabric has puckered slightly (see the arrow) *sigh*. I do hope that it will go away while blocking..

This Iris is a RSN pattern stitched by Debra Barrett.

Happy stitching!

Anita.